Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
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Theatre
The Girls of Slender Means @ Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh
This new adaption of Muriel Spark's The Girls of Slender Means reflects on post-war life through laughter, friendship and hope Read more »| 01 May 2024 -
Film
Scottish Film Events: May 2024
We look ahead to three film festivals coming your way in May: Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, The Edinburgh Folk Film Gathering and the inaugural edition of Falastin Film Festival Read more »| 01 May 2024 -
Books
Scottish Books Events: May 2024
There's a lot of excellent book launches this month, as well as hybrid hip-hop and poetry nights and open mics Read more »| 01 May 2024 -
Music
Scottish New Music Roundup: May 2024
It's another bumper month for new Scottish releases, so we've packed in as much as we can including new releases from No Windows, Bee Asha and rEDOLENT Read more »| 01 May 2024 -
Clubs
Scottish Clubbing Highlights: May 2024
Start your summer right with May’s clubbing highlights across the country. Top picks include: Rezzet, Peverelist, Olof Dreijer, Barker, DJ Haram, and PONYBOY VS INFERNO Read more »| 01 May 2024 -
Music
Mitski @ Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 27 Apr
The first night of Mitski's Edinburgh run is dazzling, as she invites us in with her precise, intuitive and alien movement Read more »| 30 Apr 2024
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Music
Scottish Live Music Highlights: May 2024
If you're in the mood for good gigs, May delivers mixtape launches, weekend festivals, and anniversary shows across Edinburgh and Glasgow Read more »| 30 Apr 2024 -
Music
Kamasi Washington – Fearless Movement
With a tenor saxophone and an endless ambition, musician and bandleader Kamasi Washington returns with what he has called his “dance album” Read more »| 30 Apr 2024 -
Music
Home Counties – Exactly As It Seems
Exactly As It Seems is a buoyant call to order to join Home Counties on their quest to find light among the gloom and traverse the ups and downs of being in your late twenties with gusto Read more »| 30 Apr 2024 -
Clubs
Do It Yourself: PONYBOY VS INFERNO
Glasgow’s favourite salon turned club night links up with London’s legendary INFERNO. Ahead of the two-part thematic cross-border affair, Dill of Ponyboy and Lewis G Burton sit down in conversation Read more »| 30 Apr 2024 -
Comedy
Scottish Comedy Highlights: May 2024
May’s comedy highlights throw up some big US stars, debut tours from some Fringe aces, and new material from familiar faces Read more »| 29 Apr 2024 -
Art
Scottish Art Events & Exhibitions: May 2024
May sees the opening of two new exhibitions at Jupiter Artland while Greenock gets a brand new art gallery, The Wyllieum Read more »| 29 Apr 2024 -
Books
The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing
In her fifth non-fiction book, Olivia Laing’s trademark blend of genres is a desire path out of the weeds Read more »| 29 Apr 2024 -
Music
Rachel Chinouriri – What a Devastating Turn of Events
Smartly sequenced and wound by emotional depth, Rachel Chinouriri’s debut is guitar pop from a bygone era Read more »| 29 Apr 2024 -
Film
50 Years of Glasgow Film Theatre
With the much-loved Glasgow Film Theatre celebrating its 50th anniversary this month, we speak to some of the programmers, technical staff and front-of-house workers who help run this wonderful cinema Read more »| 29 Apr 2024